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After DM'ing with Eversource, we're listed as "open and active" but behind the 25 customers still without power in Watertown (correctly) and no timeline on when they'll get to us. Seeing the fire from the lines in Charlestown, I REALLY REALLY want these wires back on the pole where they belong.

My insurance adjuster has been calling every day to ask if the lines are back up.

But it's on the other street next to my driveway, so I can't get mail (nor can my neighbor). The sidewalk in front is coned off because of the risk of the pole sliding further, or the wires breaking if it shifts.

The live wires were suspended until they cut down the limbs next door; now they're resting on my pine and my neighbors' trees.

We're probably fine right up until they get wet or weighed down with snow, i.e., tomorrow night.

Eversource is here (even though they don't own the pole) and are moving their wires.

I am given to understand that the broken pole probably should not have been left on the remains of my front steps, suspended 3 feet above the sidewalk. Everyone working is shaking their damn heads over the situation. As soon as these techs are clear, I'll tweet an update.

We've got two cherry pickers and a supervisor, so I suspect this isn't a simple operation.

Verizon owns the previous and current pole (they replaced it Friday afternoon); RCN and Comcast are the cable services here.

Eventually DPW will have to replace the streetlight, but I don't see that happening before tomorrow.

... their techs hung around for 2+ hours waiting for the treecutters on Friday, after installing the replacement pole.

What's weird is that Verizon didn't come back once the treecutters did. Because I have the photos showing how far the pole slid. They were expected to come and put the lines in a temporary clamp, so that we could reach our houses, my neighbors could leave their driveway and the mailman could deliver. And so the lines wouldn't snap if the broken pole slid all the way to the ground.

Eversource showed up, once they'd restored power to all but one customer in town. That customer went live while they were working on our wires.

The Eversource techs were sent out, and did the damn job. The Verizon techs weren't sent. This was an ongoing theme on Twitter today, which utilities were showing up and which weren't.

The pole is now resting in the hellstrip, ready for Verizon to collect.